Gov. Scott Walker says he has ordered top officials in his administration to study ways to avoid another situation like the one that led to euthanizing a fawn from a no-kill shelter.

The fawn, named Giggles, was brought to the Saint Francis Society shelter near the state line by an Illinois family who believed the animal had lost its mother. But Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources officials took the animal from the shelter and euthanized it, saying state law required it to prevent the spread of chronic wasting disease.

WISN 12 News first reported the story of the DNR's raid on the animal shelter. Nine armed DNR wardens, accompanied by four sheriff's deputies, served a search warrant on the animal shelter and seized the fawn.

The shelter's director told WISN 12 the fawn was scheduled to go to a wildlife center in Illinois the day after the DNR euthanized it.

Walker said Monday that he asked members of his cabinet earlier in the day to discuss the issue and present him with options. Says Walker, "I don't ever want to see something like that again."

In 2011, Walker intervened in a similar case, sparing a young doe nursed back to health after being hit by a car.

The DNR's Facebook page has been flooded with thousands of comments, most of them critical of the agency for the fawn's death. The story has generated national attention.